May | 2016 | City Sociology

Older pensioners living in poverty

Important new research by Matt Barnes has helped shed light on the large inequalities in incomes among people in older age. The research, funded and published by Independent Age, draws on analysis of incomes data from the Family Resources Survey. It shows that there are huge variations in incomes of pensioners, with hundreds of thousands…

New well-being report published

A new report looking at well-being in the UK and across Europe over time has just been published. A joint effort from the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys, City University London, The New Economics Foundation and Cambridge University, the report – Looking through the wellbeing kaleidoscope: Results from the European Social Survey – looks at: the design…

New article by Gerbrand Tholen published in Sociology

A new article by Gerbrand Tholen has appeared ahead of print online in Sociology. The paper is named ‘Symbolic Closure: Towards a Renewed Sociological Perspective on the Relationship between Higher Education, Credentials and the Graduate Labour Market’. Tholen examines how graduate workers are able to create labour market advantage over other graduates and non-graduates in…

Conversation UK article by City Q-Step PhD on London Mayoral campaign

Rima Saini, 2nd year PhD in Quantitative Sociology, wrote a timely piece in the Conversation UK about Tory and Labour efforts to garner votes in this month’s London Mayoral elections. She used data from the 2010 Ethnic Minority Survey from the British Election Study team to look at what South Asian groups in the UK…

Q-Step Postgrads from across the UK present at City

The 2nd Postgraduate Q-Step Network event of the academic year was held at City University London on 27th April 2016. The PG Q-Step network is a forum for Q-Step postgrads interested in quantitative pedagogy and research to share ideas and learn from each other. This event organised on behalf of the network and sponsored by City…

City Sociology at the BSA Annual Conference 2016

A number of the Sociology department’s PhD students and senior academics presented papers at the British Sociological Association’s (BSA) Annual Conference 2016 last month at Aston University, Birmingham. Heated discussions – both inside and outside the plenary and panel sessions – took place not only on this year’s conference theme of ‘Global Societies: Fragmenting and…